Shive

Quick meaning: Shive is a noun meaning A slice, especially of bread.

Meaning

A slice, especially of bread.

More Meanings

1. A beam or plank of split wood.
2. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
3. A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
4. A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
5. A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
6. (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
7. (obsolete) A sheave.

Example Sentences

Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue

So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.

In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.

If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut and shive.

Word Forms

• shives

Synonyms for shive

Depending on context, synonyms include shiv, boon, shove.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slice, shashlik, shish, cheeseparing, shishkebob, coin.

Related Dictionary Tools